android kxml2,Android KXmlParser "NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.System.arraycopy([CI[CII)V" - Stack O...

I am using KXmlParser in a Spock specification (no Robolectric) to parse Android strings.xml file. I intermittently get the following trace:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.System.arraycopy([CI[CII)V

at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.fillBuffer(KXmlParser.java:1509)

at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.peekType(KXmlParser.java:1001)

at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.next(KXmlParser.java:448)

at org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser.next(KXmlParser.java:313)

Any idea what could be wrong?

Here are are my ext properties:

minSdkVersion = 19

targetSdkVersion = 26

compileSdkVersion = 26

buildToolsVersion = '26.0.2'

Here is the code snippet:

try (FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml")) {

XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();

factory.setNamespaceAware(true);

XmlPullParser parser = factory.newPullParser();

parser.setInput(in, null);

AndroidStringResource resource = null;

int eventType = parser.getEventType();

while (eventType != parser.END_DOCUMENT) {

eventType = parser.next();

if (eventType == parser.START_TAG) {

if (parser.getName().equals("string")) {

resource = new AndroidStringResource();

resource.name = parser.getAttributeValue(null, "name");

resource.context = parser.getAttributeValue(null, "context");

String maxLengthStr = parser.getAttributeValue(null, "maxLength");

resource.maxLength = (maxLengthStr == null) ? -1 : Integer.parseInt(maxLengthStr);

}

} else if (eventType == parser.TEXT) {

if (resource != null) {

resource.value = parser.getText();

}

} else if (eventType == parser.END_TAG) {

if (parser.getName().equals("string")) {

if (!resourceNameToServerKeyMap.containsKey(resource.name)) {

androidStringResourceMap.put(resource.name, resource);

}

resource = null;

}

}

}

}

Note that I am adding custom XML attributes to elements in my strings.xml. Here is an example:

myapp

An MVCE reproduacble test case is avilable here.